There were a few anti-draft demonstrations going on or that I was involved in that spurred me to write Partyup.
In reaction to the disproportionate number of black soldiers being killed in Vietnam, SNCC activists organised one of the first anti-draft demonstrations, at the Atlanta induction centre in 1966 and coined the slogan "Hell no, we won't go!" The war over there was soon to become a war over here.
In fact, the most visible action that Romney took during the early Vietnam War years was to participate in a pro-draft demonstration at Stanford University in the spring of 1966.
LBJ's invasion of the Dominican Republic was bad enough; his dramatic escalation of the Viet Nam War spurred huge anti-war demonstrations, draft card burnings and accusations of treason from an older generation that, from our point of view, didn't get it.
C.I.A. analysts drafted four sentences describing "demonstrations" in Benghazi that were "spontaneously inspired" by protests in Cairo against a crude video lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.
We also proposed a draft of the engineering demonstration satellite while examining major element technology.
Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC that publishing the draft bill was a "demonstration of our commitment to a referendum".
And few of its generals, if one may give a military rank to a devoted pacifist, stood front and center more than David McReynolds -- at the draft-card burnings and repeated demonstrations that ultimately helped build a critical mass of domestic opposition to the fighting.
I did join the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, and later resisted the draft and was arrested in nonviolent demonstrations.
The guys who actually organized the demonstrations and burned their draft cards et cetera were taking very substantial risks they didn't need to do".
He organized demonstrations in Washington and drafted press releases that he distributed to 20,000 journalists.
